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The subject of this thesis, titled "Building Information Modelling (B.I.M.) and Interoperability - Case Study", is a showcase of the BIM methodology and its implementation in a case study of a building in Greece using three designing and analysis programs. Specifically, it aims to answer how easy, fast and efficient in terms of time and money it is to carry out a holistic digital building study, focused more on the structural parts, using the BIM methodology. Also, another purpose of this thesis is to present the process of designing the overall model of information from scratch using the least amount of programs and tools. The project begins with the design of the floor plans and the thought process behind them using the program AutoCAD 2018. At this point, the ideas for all the architectural and construction elements of the building are analyzed, as well as the structure's location and its influence to it. Then, the three-dimensional model of the skeleton frame is created using the program Revit 2020 while showing the information input process at the same time. Next, the geometric characteristics of the frame are transferred to the program Robot Structural Analysis 2020 to carry out a structural analysis and calculate the required reinforcement. Afterwards, the data is transferred back into the information model in the program Revit 2020 in order to get integrated, while additional morphological elements are inserted in the building and the program's plugin function is introduced. Finally, the construction materials go through a quantification process in order to calculate them and come up with a budget and the results and observations of the thesis are presented.